NFFC Farmer to Farmer Campaign

Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering

The Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering (Farmer to Farmer) is a network of 34 farm organizations from throughout the United States that endorsed the Farmer Declaration on Genetic Engineering released in December 1999. Farmer to Farmer seeks to build a farmer driven campaign focused on the risks of genetic engineering in agriculture and to provide a national forum for farmer action on agricultural biotechnology issues.

Farmer to Farmer accomplishes these goals by:

• Publishing educational materials and conducting workshops on the agronomic, economic and legal liabilities that genetic engineering poses for family farmers and rural communities,
• Conducting trainings to develop farmer leaders and spokespersons on genetic engineering, farm policy and trade issues,
• Providing strategy, media, public policy development and fundraising assistance to farm groups organizing grassroots campaigns on genetic engineering issues, and
• Developing collaborations with national and international environmental, consumer and faith-based organizations to support farmer driven campaigns on genetic engineering issues.

Farmer to Farmer is working with farm, environmental and consumer groups on campaigns to:

• Establish strict economic, environmental and public health standards prior to commercialization of genetically engineered wheat,
• Prohibit the commercialization of genetically engineered rice,
• Ban biopharmaceuticals in food crops, and
• Enact policies that require genetically engineered seeds and foods to be labeled and that create industry liability for contamination to farms, food and the environment by genetically engineered crops.

For more information contact Bill Wenzel, National Director, Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering, P.O. Box 272, Stoughton, WI 53589, (877) 968-3276, bwenzel2@aol.com

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